{{Pakistan’s teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, shot by the Taliban for fighting for girls’ rights to education, on Thursday was awarded the European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize.}}<\/p>\n
“Today, we decided to let the world know that our hope for a better future stands in young people like Malala Yousafzai,” said the chairman of the conservative European People’s Party (EPP), Joseph Daul.<\/p>\n
The 16-year-old who has become an emblem of the fight against the most radical forms of Islamism has also been nominated for the Nobel peace prize.<\/p>\n
She was shot in the head by the Pakistani Taliban on October 9 last year for speaking out against them and has gone on to become a global ambassador for the right of all children to go to school.<\/p>\n
Three jailed Belarussian dissidents and US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden had also been short-listed for the parliament’s Sakharov prize.<\/p>\n
The three Belarussians, Ales Belyatsky, Eduard Lobau and Mykola Statkevich, were jailed after mass protests in Minsk in December 2010 against the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko.<\/p>\n
Snowden, the US contractor who revealed widespread spying by the United states on friends and foes alike, has sought asylum in Russia.<\/p>\n
Last year’s award went to detained Iranians, lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and film-maker Jafar Panahi, to honour those “standing up for a better Iran.”<\/p>\n
Past winners of the 50,000-euro ($65,000) prize include South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela and former UN secretary general Kofi Annan.<\/p>\n
(AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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